Multi wavelength mode-lock soliton generation using fiber laser loop coupled to an add-drop ring resonator

• Main Authors: Amiri, Iraj Sadegh, Soltanian, Mohammad Reza Khalifeh, Alavi, Sayed Ehsan, Ahmad, Harith
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media, LLC 2015
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58604/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11082-015-0125-2
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The add-drop ring resonator system is the fundamental building block of optical transmission and communication systems. An add-drop microring resonator (MRR) consist-ing of a 120 µm diameter loop of optical waveguide was used to filter the input spectrum of a mode-locked laser. The experimental setup is used to generate soliton mode-locked laser pulse, where we used the experimental data to model and simulate the propagation of the mode-locked soliton laser pulse within the MRR. The transmission characteristics of the through and drop ports output signals from this system are described in this paper. As results, multi-wavelength mode lock soliton with full width at half maximum and free spectral range (FSR) of 8 pm and 0.67 nm were generated respectively. The FSR of the input signals are enlarged significantly by the system, thus separating signal wavelengths by a resonator has been investigated. In the proposed scheme, FSR-spaced signals are leveraged as a means of obtaining higher bandwidth output signals while using an add-drop MRR.